Receptacle



July 31, 1928.

' w. H. FULPER RECEPi'ACLE Filed Oct. 22, 1926 one of the various elements of a rooms fur Patented July 31, 1928 UNITED STATES PATENT" OFFICE.

RECEPTACLE.

Application filed October 22, 1926. Serial No. 143,456.

This invention relates to receptacles. The invention more particularly has in mind to provide a new and improved combination of receptacle and'mount, wherein various dissimilar materials are used for receptacle and mount partsin such manner that the respective properties of said materials will usefully coact rather than other-,

wise.

The invention, as preferably carried out, provides the combination of a receptacle which is cup or vase shaped and which is made of pottery or some similar'characteristically brittle material; a suspensory device for the receptacle including a spike. prong equipment of the stick-pin type, and consequently of metal or some similar characteristically tough and non-brittle material; and a means for securing the prong equipment to the receptacle and constituting a structure or collection of material'having properties unlike those of the materials of either the receptacle or the prong equipment.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a receptacle of the material indi-' cated, and equipped with a novel suspensory means whereby the receptacle may be readily attached to and detached from any nishings or furniture of the kind which may be readily pierced by a downwardly directed stick-pin or the like. Such an element capable of thus being pierced would be, for example, a piece of wall drapery, or

the fabric-covered arm or back of an'upholstered chair. The new article of manufacture thus provides a receptacle which may be used for widely diversified purposes. It may be employed, for instance, as an ash receiver, or as a vase for out flowers, or as a condiment holder. I

Another object isto provide a receptacle of the material indicated, and yet one equipped with a prongmeans secured to the receptacle near itsupper end, such prong means including a prong member dependent on the outside of the receptacle, and this prong member being of metal and termi nating at its lower end in a point, whereby a simple downward movement of the whole device securely hangs it in place and a simple upward movement detaches the same.

Another object is to provide a connection for the upper end of the prong member or members whereby such member or members may be readily and inexpensively joined to the receptacle, but at the same time really permanently anchored thereto,even with receptacle and prong equipment of such widely dissimilar materials as say porcelain and steel or spring brass. I

The invention will be more clearly understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which illustrates several of the many possible forms which the invention may take. These illustrated forms, while some of them are now preferred, represent merely present preferences; and of course the scope of protection comtemplated is to be taken solely from the appended claims.

In this drawing;

Fig. V1 is a perspective view showing a' vase-like receptacle, equipped with a single prong according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a. fragmentary view showing the flat back-wall of the receptacle of Fig. 1 in section, and showing similarly the attach ing means for the headof the prong;

'Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the prong shown in sideelevation in Fig. 2; and

Figs; 3, 4, 5 and 6 are views generally similar to F ig. '2, but indicating different arrangements for facilitating a secure connection of prong equipmentand receptacle. In each of these views, also, a single-pin prong equipment is illustrated.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 2 the receptacle is indicated at 7. The back-wall thereof, 7, in the present case flat or plane, is provided on itsoutside and .near its top with a recess 8 large enough to receive the enlarged head of a prong element 9 and then to have poured, tamped or otherwise trapped .therein a collection of material withinwhich the head of the element 9 will be imbedded. This material is indicated at 10, and desirably is solder or the like. Ma.- terial 10 should be a material having cer tain properties, when squeezed into tight engagement with recess 8, especially when secured in place in the recess by pouring said material into the recess and then allowing the material to harden and set in situ around the head of the prong element. The material should have a fairly low melt-- ing point, to avoid too great heat shock to the receptacle. I Also, the material should have considerable toughness when in the solid state. Again, it may well have a natural affinity for the material of which the prong element is made; which would be the case were said element of brass, and were the anchoring material ordinary solder Further, it is highly desirable that the :a-nchoring material haveready fluidity when molten, so as to shape itself closely to the tiny surface irregularities, indentations, &c. present in recess 8 when the receptacle? is of pottery. v l

The recess 8 may be of any suitable shape, but it is recommended that the outline of the same at wall 7 be other than circular. Desirably, such outline is polygonal rather than rounded, so as to present corners as shown in Fig. 1. A properly designed recess has much to do with the coaction of material 10 and the material of which the receptacle'7 is'formed, in reliably anchoring the prong element 9 in the recess and to the receptacle.

p The prong-element 9 where only one such is used, as in the embodiments of the invention shown in all the views, is preferably shaped at its head so as to lock the element against swing in any plane relative to the material 10. In the present case, the prong element is provided with a T-head, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. 1

Referring now to the forms shown in Figs. 3 to 6, variously shaped and located recesses are shown, as further illustrative of divers ways in which the invention may be embodied, even in the case of the vase 7 in Fig. 1, and even with the prong equipment limited to a single stickpin element such as the one shown in Fig. 2

The arrangements of Figs. 3,4 and 5 are similar to those of Figs. 1 and 2 in the respect that the recesses '8 are provided with opposed side walls which are inclined away from each other toward the "bottoms of the recesses; to give each recess a dove-tail shape, the better to hold in place the materiallO. i

In Fig. 3 the recess 8 is shown practically in the same location as that of Fig. In Fig. 3, however, the recess 8 is shown as being longer from top to bottom. This permits the prong element 9 to be mounted in place, and thereafter to be used, according I to the invention, but without requiring the upper portion thereof, corresponding to the part marked 9 in Fig. 2, to be bent as shown in Fig.

' The forms of Figs. 2 and 3 have thusone other point in common, that the piercing length of element 9 depends below the recess 8 at an angle to the plane of wall 7 The forms of Figs. 4 and 5 differ from those of Figs. 2 and 3 in that the receptacle carries on its outside and at or near its top a canopy or transverse rib, as indicated at 11, in the undersideof which is formed the and consequently the canopy 11 may cording to the invention; yet with the ele- I ment unbent, and at the same time with its piercing length depending parallel to the plane of the back-wall 7 In Fig. 5, however, the element is fairly close to the back wallthroughout the length of the former.

. The forms of Figs. 4 and 5 are at present preferred over the forms of Figs. 2 and 3, because apparently in the case of the former, the element 9 is more securely connected to the receptacle by way of the material 10 the anchorage of the element being particularly resisten-t to any accidental tendency of the element 9 to act as a pry-bar on material 10, due to fleXings or springings of the element during use of the device.

Referring finally to the form shown in pend parallel with back-wall 7 if desired, this form of Fig. 6 isat present preferred over even the forms of Figs. 4 and 5, for the following reasons. In Fig.6 the canopy is provided with a T or L-shaped recess as shown. ployed, one at an angle to, and opening into, the other. In the present case, the upper recess is horiontal, as indicated at 8 and the lower recess is vertical, asv indicated at 8". ,Thus the recesses 8 and 8 may be circular in cross-section; and this would be true, even if the lower recess opened into the upper re- 7 cess at rather than slightly removed from the inner end of the latter. These recesses may be round, as just stated, and for greater ease of'ma'king, because the material 10 in 7 each recess would look against any movement whatever the material in the other recess. This would be a mutual keying action In other words, two recesses areemwhere the two angularly related recesses are so disposed that the lower one is open at its bottom, as is the recess 8 of Fig. 6, this recess could be made of considerable length, as also shown in Fig. 6. And then the prong element could be merely, as further shown in Fig. '6, an ordinary bank-pin 9 of, or magnified to, the proper size.

While I have taken great pains to show and carefully explain a number of different forms or embodiments of the invention, and while I have mentioned certain uses, and certain materials, and certain preferences as between various of such embodiments, it is of course to be understood that these are not to be taken as in any way defining or limiting the invention itself. Various changes may be made in what has been shown and described, and many apparently widely different embodiments may be devised, yet all to fall within the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. The combination of a receptacle having a recess, a prong element having a depending piercing length and an upper end portion shaped to fit loosely in said recess, and an anchoring means wedged in the recess and about the upper end portion of the prong element.

2. A receptacle carrying a depending prong element, and means for securing the prong element at its upper end to the upper end of the receptacle, the receptacle having a recess forming a part of said means, said means also including an enlarged head on the element and a collection of material castin situ in said recess to embed the enlarged head of the element in said material.

3. A receptacle, and suspensory means thereof, said means including a depending prong element with a piercing point at its lower end and also including a collection of material within which the upper end of the prong element is embedded and which is secured to the receptacle, the receptecle being of a brittle material such as pottery.

4:. A receptacle of a brittle material such as pottery, said receptacle having a recess in its outer portion near its top, a prong element of a less brittle material than pottery, and a collection of material tight in said recess and secured tight around the end portion of said element remote from its plercing point.

a new article of manufacture, a

1 stick-on pottery receptacle, said receptacle upper end portion thereof rigid relative I to the receptacle.

6; A pottery receptacle having on its outside a canopy and having in said canopy an undercut recess, a prong element the upper end of which is inserted into said recess, and a collection of material wedged in said recess and within which is embedded the upper end of the prong element.

7 A pottery receptacle having a recess presenting a mouth at the outside of the receptacle, a depending prong element, and

a collection of material in the recess, the upper end of the prong element being embedded in said material, said recess being shaped to deviate from a circular crosssection at least for a part of its length to prevent the material from being loosened in the recess by strains transmitted through the prong element.

8. A pottery receptacle having on its outside a canopy, and having in said canopy an upwardly extending recess and a recess outwardly extending from the first recess to the outer edge of the canopy, a dependin element the upper end portion of which is extended into the first recess, and a single collection of material in both recesses and surrounding the part of the prong element extended'into the first recess.

WILLIAM H. FULPER.

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